Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia write by John Haldon. This book was released on 2018-11-22. Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The site of medieval Euchaïta, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro ('the Recruit'). Unlike most excavated or surveyed urban centres of the Byzantine period, Euchaïta was never a major metropolis, cultural centre or extensive urban site, although it had a military function from the seventh to ninth centuries. Its significance lies precisely in the fact that as a small provincial town, something of a backwater, it was probably more typical of the 'average' provincial Anatolian urban settlement, yet almost nothing is known about such sites. This volume represents the results of a collaborative project that integrates archaeological survey work with other disciplines in a unified approach to the region both to enhance understanding of the history of Byzantine provincial society and to illustrate the application of innovative approaches to field survey.
Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia
Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia write by John Haldon. This book was released on 2018-11-22. Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyses the evolution of a provincial Byzantine urban settlement based on the results of an interdisciplinary collaborative project.
The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia
The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia write by Philipp Niewohner. This book was released on 2017-03-17. The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book accounts for the tumultuous period of the fifth to eleventh centuries from the Fall of Rome and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire through the breakup of the Eastern Roman Empire and loss of pan-Mediterranean rule, until the Turks arrived and seized Anatolia. The volume is divided into a dozen syntheses that each addresses an issue of intrigue for the archaeology of Anatolia, and two dozen case studies on single sites that exemplify its richness. Anatolia was the only major part of the Roman Empire that did not fall in late antiquity; it remained steadfast under Roman rule through the eleventh century. Its personal history stands to elucidate both the emphatic impact of Roman administration in the wake of pan-Mediterranean collapse. Thanks to Byzantine archaeology, we now know that urban decline did not set in before the fifth century, after Anatolia had already be thoroughly Christianized in the course of the fourth century; we know now that urban decline, as it occurred from the fifth century onwards, was paired with rural prosperity, and an increase in the number, size, and quality of rural settlements and in rural population; that this ruralization was halted during the seventh to ninth centuries, when Anatolia was invaded first by the Persians, and then by the Arabs---and the population appears to have sought shelter behind new urban fortifications and in large cathedrals. Further, it elucidates that once the Arab threat had ended in the ninth century, this ruralization set in once more, and most cities seem to have been abandoned or reduced to villages during the ensuing time of seeming tranquility, whilst the countryside experienced renewed prosperity; that this trend was reversed yet again, when the Seljuk Turks appeared on the scene in the eleventh century, devastated the countryside and led to a revival and refortification of the former cities. This dynamic historical thread, traced across its extremes through the lens of Byzantine archaeology, speaks not only to the torrid narrative of Byzantine Anatolia, but to the enigmatic medievalization.
The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610–1204
The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610–1204 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610–1204 write by Luca Zavagno. This book was released on 2021-10-06. The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610–1204 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the Byzantine city and the changes it went through from 610 to 1204. Throughout this period, cities were always the centers of political and social life for both secular and religious authorities, and, furthermore, the focus of the economic interests of local landowning elites. This book therefore examines the regional and subregional trajectories in the urban function, landscape, structure and fabric of Byzantium’s cities, synthesizing the most cutting-edge archaeological excavations, the results of analyses of material culture (including ceramics, coins, and seals) and a reassessment of the documentary and hagiographical sources. The transformation the Byzantine urban landscape underwent from the seventh to thirteenth centuries can afford us a better grasp of changes to the Byzantine central and provincial administrative apparatus; their fiscal machinery, military institutions, socio-economic structures and religious organization. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of the history, archaeology and architecture of Byzantium.
Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity
Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity write by Thomas S. Burns. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent publications on urbanism and the rural environment in Late Antiquity, most of which explore a single region or narrow chronological niche, have emphasized either textual or archeological evidence. None has attempted the more ambitious task of bringing together the full range of such evidence within a multiregional perspective and around common themes. Urban Centers and Rural Contexts seeks to redress this omission. While ancient literature and the physical remains of cities attest to the power that urban values held over the lives of their inhabitants, the rural areas in which the majority of imperial citizens lived have not been well served by the historical record. Only recently have archeological excavations and integrated field surveys sufficiently enhanced our knowledge of the rural contexts to demonstrate the continuing interdependence of urban centers and rural communities in Late Antiquity. These new data call into question the conventional view that this interdependence progressively declined as a result of governmental crises, invasions, economic dislocation, and the success of Christianization. The essays in this volume require us to abandon the search for a single model of urban and rural change; to reevaluate the cities and towns of the Empire as centers of habitation, rather than archeological museums; and to reconsider the evidence of continuous and pervasive cultural change across the countryside. Deploying a wide range of material as well as literary evidence, the authors provide access not only into the world of élites, but also to the scarcely known lives of those without a voice in the literature, those men and women who worked in the shops, labored in the fields, and humbled themselves before their gods. They bring us closer to the complexity of life in late ancient communities and, in consequence, closer to both urban and rural citizens.
